This document provides a list of tech tools for teachers across various subjects and needs, including resources for lesson planning, differentiation, assessment, organization, and integrating technology into specific subjects like art, theatre, math, and more. Safety considerations and free or trial apps and websites are included for activities like creating virtual posters, trimming YouTube videos, reading comprehension tools, and paperless polling systems.

1. Tech Tools for Teachers

2. Tech Resources
• Kathy Schrock
http://www.schrockguide.net/
• Teachers With Apps
http://www.teacherswithapps.com/
• Karen Ogen
www.karenogen.com
• Pinterest
www.pinterest.com

3. Considerations for K-12
• Student Safety & Security
• http://www.thinkb4u.com/
• http://www.netsmartz.org/
• School & System Regulations
• Communication with Parents

4. Direct Instruction
• Glogster
Allows users to create virtual
posters combining text, audio,
video, images, and hyperlinks
and to share them with others
electronically.
Note—you can sign up for a free
trial on the GlogsterEDU site.
After it expires, you will still be
able to use Glogster.
www.glogster.com

5. Direct Instruction
• Safeshare.TV
This site allows you to safely share YouTube
videos and crop the parts that you do not want
from the video. The process is simple. Find a
YouTube video that you would like to share with
your students. Paste the link for the video into
safe share TV, click to edit, and copy the link of
your trimmed YouTube video. It can be pasted
into PowerPoint, webpages, social networking
sites, and anything else you can think of! A safe
and easy way to bring media into your class for
free.
http://safeshare.tv/
http://safeshare.tv/w/ss56b37916c677a

6. Differentiation
• Newsela
Newsela makes it easy for an
entire class to read the same
content, but at a level that’s
just right for each student. It
also generates Common Core
aligned quizzes that are also
differentiated by reading level.
www.newsela.com

7. Differentiation
• QR Codes
Generate QR codes for students to
scan with an iPad. You can link QR
codes to videos, websites or your own
content.
Differentiate during station work.
Assign individual students or student
groups different QR codes based on
readiness level.
**Also great for displaying student
work!
www.qrstuff.com
http://www.classtools.net/QR/ (QR
Scavenger Hunt Generator)

8. Interdisciplinary
• Google Cultural Institute
Allows users to discover exhibits,
artifacts and places in
extraordinary detail. View an
artifact close up and then view a
3D view of the exhibit it is in. Visit
the Sphinx and view it from all
angles!
www.google.com/culturalinstitite/
home

9. Interdisciplinary
• Pixel Press
Pixel Press Floors offers a simple
way to create & play games –
create on paper with “Draw-on-
Paper” and take a picture of it.
Comes with lesson plans—would
be a great STEM or Arts
Integration tool!
http://www.projectpixelpress.co
m/education/

10. Assessment
• Plickers
Plickers lets you poll your class
for free, without the need for
student devices. Just give each
student a card (a “paper clicker”),
and use your iPhone to scan
them to do instant checks-for-
understanding, exit tickets, and
impromptu polls. Best of all, your
data is automatically saved,
student-by-student, at
www.plickers.com

11. Assessment
• ZipGrade
ZipGrade turns your phone or
tablet into an optical grading
machine similar to a Scantron. It
reads free-to-download answer
sheets in multiple sizes. Provide
instant feedback to students by
grading exit tickets, quizzes, and
formative assessments as soon
as they finish. (13 Years and
Older!)
http://www.zipgrade.com/

12. Lesson Planning
• Planboard
This online plan book makes it
simple to get organized and
reduce your classroom prep
time. Accessible from
anywhere, you can plan lessons,
add curriculum sets, and
manage your schedule with
ease.
www.chalk.com

13. Organization
• CamScanner App
• Organization Tools:
• Cloud-Based Storage
(OneDrive, Dropbox, Google Drive)
• Calendar
• Naming Conventions

14. For Art
Teachers • Use your iPad to record your
lessons (especially your demos). If a
student is absent, hand them the
iPad and have them watch to catch
up. (You can also post the demos
online if your school has a system
like Blackboard, Moodle or Canvas)
and students can watch before
class.

15. For Theatre
Teachers
• Use the iPad’s camera to capture
students during rehearsal. Play the
rehearsal back for them to view and
engage in a critique. You can give
students who are not on stage the
iPad to record—especially good to
engage a student who needs
direction while not on stage.
• Use a sound effects app like Sound
Effects! by TMSoft. Create a
soundboard and allow students
who are not on stage to act as folley
artists to stay engaged during
improv exercises.

16. For Math
Teachers • Film demonstrations of how to
solve specific problems. Load these
to a Youtube channel (you can list
as private). Link QR codes to these
short videos. Print and post as an
interactive bulletin board for
students to gain extra practice and
to review before assessments.

17. For
Elementary
Teachers • List of children’s authors who will
Skype with classes for free:
http://www.katemessner.com/auth
ors-who-skype-with-classes-book-
clubs-for-free/